Definition of arrest

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Arrest (v. t.) To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention..

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Unattached :: Unattached (a.) Not taken or arrested.
Arrestee :: Arrestee (v.) The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.
Arrestive :: Arrestive (a.) Tending to arrest.
Watchhouse :: Watchhouse (n.) A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development..
Degradation :: Degradation (n.) Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole..
Protection :: Protection (n.) A writing that protects or secures from molestation or arrest; a pass; a safe-conduct; a passport.
Arrestation :: Arrestation (n.) Arrest.
Stop :: Stop (n.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought..
Rest :: Rest (v. t.) To arrest.
Hemostatic :: Hemostatic (n.) A medicine or application to arrest hemorrhage.
Suppressible :: Suppress (v. t.) To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage..
Hemostatic :: Hemostatic (a.) Serving to arrest hemorrhage; styptic.
Pause :: Pause (n.) In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses..
Faller :: Faller (n.) A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks..
Right :: Right (a.) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal..
Hysterogenic :: Hysterogenic (a.) Producing hysteria; as, the hysterogenicpressure points on the surface of the body, pressure upon which is said both to produce and arrest an attack of hysteria..
Abortion :: Abortion (n.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed..
Warrant :: Warrant (n.) A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice..
Free :: Free (superl.) Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.
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